[Foundation-l] Stable versions live on de.wp

[Andrew Gray]

2008/5/8 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com>:
> >  I can see how this would have the effect of soft-locking - I'd really
> >  like to know how we plan to get round it.
>
> A flagged page that is edited by a "trusted" user (that is, one who
> can flag pages) is flagged by default. Given the (potentially) huge
> number of such users, many pages will have flags updated as a
> by-product of normal editing.

Excellent. How is trusted status allocated? Is it a positive decision
to set the flag, or a sort of "super-autoconfirmed" status that gets
doled out based on X many edits over Y time period?

One other question: if a revision is flagged in error, can the flag be removed?

> >  Automatically generated reports of all pages with the most recent edit
> >  "unflagged", sorted by age, perhaps? This'd allow the permitted users
> >  to knock off a few each a day, keep it churning over. The sort of
> >  thing that would appeal to inveterate RC patrollers ;-)
>
> There are a number of special pages for these purposes. There's one
> that lists pages with no flagged version; you can even filter by
> category!

Magnus, you're wonderful :-)

> I think I saw a "sort-by-oldest-flag" page as well.

This would seem to be the most critical one - a new revision unflagged
for a week is a lot more annoying than one unflagged for fifteen
minutes, especially if the user who contributed it is wondering why it
isn't showing up...

[Sorry for all the stupid questions, but those of us with nicht
sprechen Deutsche can't play around with it very easily to answer them
ourselves...]

-- 
- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk